The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-04
THE GREAT LABOR STRIKE.
Business at New York and Neighboring
Points Still Very Greatly Impeded.
Laborers Brought from the West Refuse to
Go to Work-A Small Outbreak at Jersey
City-0ther Labor News.
AT NEW YORK.
Not Much Change in tho s,tuation-Pol,c.

AT NEW YORK.
Not Much Change In tho Sltuation-Police
Precautions.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3-Very little freight is be-
ing moved along the river front this morning
and most of the railroad piers on the West Side
are still closed. The New York Central has $50
men at work dischargins big float, that for the
past few days has lain at the pier. but the
progress made is very slow. The company is
receiving all the freight that is offered, but mer
chants shipping nothing more than the most
urgent orders, fearing delay. The Pennsylva-
mia railroad introduced hundred men Pier
5, but they were all green hands who had never
handled freight before One gate was open this
morning and few trackmen disch arged several
tons of freight on the bulk head. The Lehigh
company, at Pier 2, did not open its gates, but
some freight was being handled on the dock
The company does not the agent says feel the
Inconvenience much. The New York, Lake
Erie & Western put on a force of men in place
of the strikers and cfsned their pier for the re-
ceipt Of freight. Very little was received.
On the steamship piers there was
much improvement Freight was being
moved mostly by new men. There
is an abundance of unskilled labor to be had, and
the superintendent of the docks have more men
than they have places for. The trouble is that
these men have had no experience at freight
handling The trouble on the Guion line pier
was further complicated this morning, when
Alex. Taylor, the dock stevedore resigned. He
claimed that he could not work with the force on
hand At the Hudson river freight depot. a
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strikers. The master workman of an Italian
local assembly of the knights of Labor called at
the headquarters of the Ocean Association, and
told the committee that seventy-fve Italians
who were working non union men were will
ing to strike if admitted to the union The offer
was accepted and the men struck. An officer of
the Ocean Association says that an Italian is
paid 50 head Cor supplying men to the steam
ship companies. The non.unon men on the
Mallory line pier VINO struck several days ago
have joined the union. Police Superintendent
Murray has taken vigorous measures to suppress
| outrages. Police Inspector Steers has taken
charge OF the police along the piers, with head
quarters at Pier &c. North river, with a
large force of uniformed police under command
The river fronts practically in state of
! siege. One thousand police have been massed
in reserve at four different points Patrol wag
ons have been stationed at each place so that the
whole force can be concentrated at any given
| point in a short time The one thousand men
can handle twenty times that number of rioters.
One thousand more are in reserve at police head
| quarters In case of a riot the whole force can
reach the scene inside of an hour Fully one
| hundred detectives have been detailed for the
| duty along shore, wearing plain clothes. The
| captains chosen to command the four divisions
| under Inspector Steers are the most moderate
tempered men on the force. They have been se-
lected as not likely to provoke fight, while fully
| able to carry it on if begun. All the river sta
| tons report half hourly to Superintendent Muir
| ray. Up to noon no trouble had been reported
/ The superintendent thinks that he is able to re-
press any disorder or rioting that might arise.
The LOO employees at Higgins's carpet factory
have quit work because 'scab" coal is used by
| the firm.
| The State legislative committee to investigate
| the causes of the coal strike met here to-day
| and after issuing summonses for witnesses ad-
| journed until tomorrow.
| Over three hundred non-union men, of every
| nationality, were brought to Pennsylvania Piers
| q and 90 this morning including twenty ne
| groes Upon finding a strike in progress they
| refused to go to work. They under the
| impression that they were to lay tracks Fiji
| teen went over to the strikers, and the others
| went to Jersey City. Over two hundred more
| were kept on a ugboat and not allowed TO land.
Police guarded the Savannah pier to-day for
the first time during the strike. Non-union men
| are boarded and lodged on barge at the bulk
head They fear trouble in consequence of the
shooting ARRAY of Tuesday night
| At the Hudson river railroad sheds. at St.
Johns Park, number of men were brought into
the yards in closed to fill the places of the
Italians who joined the strikers. They were
not allowed to go outside, the pickets of the
strikers are around The police guarded them.
The superintendent said he could get all the men
| he wanted, and that the strike would not delay
| the delivery of freight The boats of the Fall
| River line have not commenced running, and no
freight is received.
The freight handlers on the Baltimore & Ohio
| pier, 43 North river, left work this afternoon,
| being called out by delegates They obeyed
| with reluctance, ~ they never had any trouble
with the company They were the last of the
| railroad men to go out The men told Superin
tendent Brooks that they had no grievances, but
we're forced to go out call They loaded ur
all freight on the pier and swept the place clean.
The men refused to accept any pay for their
work. as they were going out call by the
union, not on any grievance of their own.
The Republic, of the White Star line, and the
Erin, of the National line could rot be loaded
by the green hands in time start to-day The
Morgan line pier is choked with freight and the
gates are closed Green men began to unload
the Aelutia. Regular men-union men-are
loading the Cunarder Aurania. The Roanoke
and Breakwater. of the Old Dominion line, sailed
| to-day, but not with full cargoes.
public meeting of business men has beer
called to meet at Steinway Hall Saturda,
| night to consider the cause and the cure of tn,
wrongs which the business men and others are
| subjected to by the controversy between tn,
coal transportation and other companies ant
their employees.
James Farrell. on-union man, was assaulte,
by gang OF strikers. and is supposed to be ia
tally in ured.
Bringing Laborers from the West
,, CINoINNATI Feb. 3-Knights of Labor VIII
, have been watching the matter closely, say tina
5 agents are here trying to employ men to TAX
the place of strikers in New York city; that the
are offering free transportation and $15 to $18
week. with extra pay for overt time. It is as
serted that about fifty men have been obtained
: but they were joined by Knights. who on tn
way will endeavor to dissuade them from work
: ING against the interests of workipemen